sudo: must be setuid root

Posted by Phuong Nguyen on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Phuong Nguyen
Published on 2010-02-04T10:15:55Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 3:01 UTC
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Recently, due to some messy stuff with master boot record, I have to re-install my Ubuntu. Before doing that, I back up all folder (exclude root, bin, sbin, tmp, media, mnt) to a NTFS partition. After installation of Ubuntu, I copied back all the folder using a nautilus (running by sudo nautilus). After that, I reboot my computer. And boom, now I cannot run sudo any more, my network services cannot run. When I run sudo from a terminal, I ge "must be setuid root" error. In ubuntu, root account is disabled by default, I don't know why all these files is no longer under ownership of my account. How would I recover back?

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